One of the consequences of accidentally releasing a developer's build of the game is the possibility of revealing removed content or inside jokes, as illustrated by a report on Kotaku about a discovery within the build of Dead Islandinadvertently released on Steam (thanks nin). Word is a hunt through the game's code reveals the Gender Wars skill that allows Purna to deal extra damage to male opponents was originally called "Feminist Whore." This is confirmed with Techland, who indicate that while there weren't necessarily dire consequences for releasing a debug build instead of the final build of the game, there may be for this incident, as they say: "The person responsible for this unfortunate situation will face professional consequences for violating the professional standards and beliefs Techland stands for." Deep Silver also disavows this, saying: "These unfortunate actions were of one individual at developer company Techland and do not in any way represent the views of publishing company Deep Silver." Here's more of the response from Blazej Krakowiak, Techland International Brand Manager:

The line in question was something a programmer considered a private joke. The skill naturally has a completely different in-game name and the script reference was also changed. What is left is a part of an obscure debug function. This is merely an explanation but by no means an excuse. In the end that code was made a part of the product and signed with our company name. We deeply regret that fact and we apologize to all our customers or anyone who might have been offended by that inappropriate expression.

Draugr wrote on Sep 8, 2011, 16:27:Right, because games like Bayonetta, DOA, and Lollipop chainsaw aren't all there just waiting to illustrate my point. They might not be offensive in the same fashion, but it does help illustrate Sexism/views of women in gaming culture.

Don't forget to add games like Metroid, Beyond Good and Evil, Mirrors Edge and Half Life 2, showing such sexism/views of women in gaming culture. Just to name a few more.Congraz, your able to single out a few games to try to make everything fit only your view. I can single things out to and they can show you a completely different view. Its like everything in life, yes some can offer more "crude" concepts of people and treat them like objects, but the fact is, it's not just against women. For every woman-pinup there are just as many men-pinup (like "Firefighter Steve")

Congrats. you totally took what i said out of context, Lets take a look at the sentence that immediately followed from what you quoted, shall we?

"The list could be bigger, but that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure we could list games that do not suffer from such things as well of course. I don't mean to imply everyone is guilty, but it is part of the culture."

So thanks for saying something I already said.I think if we stacked the lists together sadly the List, ME/ME2, HL2, Mirror's Edge, Metroid is on would be dwarfed by the other list. this feeds into my point

Also, comparing men to women in the pin-up categories is a battle you've already lost. Just go to any gaming con. When I see the men being represented the way the women are then I'll say I was wrong.If you're reffering to stereotypical characters, then once again the list of stereo type female characters to stereotyped male characters is, once again, much longer.l

Feel free to make that list though, and I'll show you mine. Unfortunately, I don't think it'd be much bigger than the titles you've already talked about (though it would be bigger, no doubt)